1. “The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us .”
2. “Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.”
3. “Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.”
4. “It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
5. “No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.”
6. “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.”
7. “Common sense suggests that if no one judged other people, there would be no real human community.”
8. “Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.”
9. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
10. “Waiting is the hardest work of hope.”
11. “I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.”
12. “You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
13. “Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.”
14. “God does not give us salvation because we believe. our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.”
15. “To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.”
16. “Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.”
17. “The rule: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.”
18. “Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk”
19. “Our history is inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.”
20. “We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.”
21. “The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.”
22. “The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.”
23. “A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.”
24. “God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.”
25. “We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.”
26. “The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.”
27. “Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.”
28. “The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.”
29. “Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.”
30. “Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.”
